ArtMarket® Insight, la actualidad del mercado del arte

Neo-pop, made in Japan [26/11/2006]

After the frenetic speculation in 2004 for the works of Murakami and Nara, young Japanese artists are now making their way into the auction world

Christie’s leads the public auction market in 2006 [22/11/2006]

USD 866 million from six sessions – that is the total revenue figure generated by Christie’s from its two thematic auctions held in New York this November, Impressionist & Modern Art and Post-War & Contemporary Art. The sum is an unprecedented figure in the history of auction results. By comparison, Sotheby’s generated USD 476 million from auctions with exactly the same themes.

Breaking news Artprice : Artprice will benefit from the European Directive on auctions sales. [14/11/2006]

Artprice is carefully studying the European Directive on services (derived from the Bolkestein Directive) to be voted in a plenary session today, 15 November 2006. This directive will have an impact on voluntary auctions.Artprice, author of the main legal analysis of the Law of 10 July 2000 and its decrees regarding the reform of voluntary auctions today observes that this French reform does not comply with the European directives on services.

Fashion photographers [12/11/2006]

To mark the opening of Paris Photo, a selection of works encapsulating the various facets of fashion photography will come under Thierry de Maigret’s hammer in an auction to be held at Drouot on 16 November.

Christie’s turns over USD 491.4 million from one sale [08/11/2006]

As expected, Christie’s auction of Impressionist and Modern art has confirmed that the art market is running at historical highs. In a single evening session involving a total of 78 lots, the auction house generated the astonishing figure of USD 491.4 million, the highest ever turnover at a single sale, far higher than Sotheby’s previous global record of USD 286 million notched up in May 1990.

Paris Photo: zooming in on the photography market [08/11/2006]

Paris becomes the world capital of photography this November, playing host to numerous exhibitions, fairs and auctions. Now in its 14th year, the Month of Photography will provide the occasion for more than 80 themed exhibitions. At the heart of the festivities, Paris Photo, the prestigious international fair held at the Carrousel du Louvre between 16 and 19 November and now in its tenth year, will showcase the works of 106 artists in 88 galleries — a vast panorama of the photography market embracing everything from the early masters to the very latest works.

French humanist photography [07/11/2006]

Between photo-journalism and picturesque paintings of society, humanist photography is a superb witness of people’s mannerisms and customs. The core of this artistic current occurred after WWII through to the late 1960s. The photographs of Robert DOISNEAU, Édouard BOUBAT, BRASSAÏ, Willy RONIS, and others, fed the newspapers and magazines of the era …and are often reproduced today. These photographs – charged with emotion and capturing fleeting moments of everyday life – have the undeniable documentary value of authenticity, but simultaneously, via their black and white medium, express a certain aesthetic of nostalgia. Over the years, this duality has particularly attracted collectors who, today, are not frightened to pay high prices for big names in photography.

Sale of the year… [02/11/2006]

The impressionist and modern art sales are the centrepiece of the New York auction season. As ever, Sotheby’s and Christie’s catalogues include some exceptional pieces.

The FIAC, at the heart of the French market in October [22/10/2006]

In October, the French art market is dominated by the FIAC, its principal contemporary art fair, judiciously organised for the period between the Frieze fair and the Art Cologne fair.

Maurice Denis : A Nabi at the Orsay Museum [19/10/2006]

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris will be celebrating the works of Maurice DENIS from 31 October 2006 to 21 January 2007. This retrospective homage should give the public a clearer understanding of the artistic evolution of a painter who was a contemporary and friend of Paul GAUGUIN, Pierre-Auguste RENOIR, Edgar DEGASand Édouard MANET, among others.

Artprice Intelligent Links® – art market e-advertising [15/10/2006]

Artprice, today the world’s leading art marketplace and enjoying average monthly growth of +10.9% over the last year, has, for the first time in its history, launched an online advertising service: Artprice Intelligent Links®.

The Second School of Paris – or informal art after WWII [11/10/2006]

Over the last ten years, the price index for the second School of Paris has risen 130%; but it has not yet overtaken the level it reached at the height of the art market bubble in 1990/1991.The term second School of Paris refers to abstract artists working in France between 1940 and 1965. Like the Nice School, the Paris School is not a school as such, but rather a label that allows the art world to lump together a mixed bag of French and foreign artists living in France including the Russian Serge POLIAKOFF, Hans HARTUNG from Germany, Gustave SINGIER from Belgium, JJean-Michel ATLAN from Algeria, and Maria Elena VIEIRA DA SILVA from Portugal, among others. According to a number of art critics, these artists had interests in common with other “informals” like Pierre SOULAGES, Jean FAUTRIER, Maurice ESTEVE, Gustave SINGIER, Roger Bissière and Jean Bertholle.

Contemporary art from Switzerland [05/10/2006]

The “new Swiss artistic scene” started to appear in museums and the major auction houses towards the end of 1990s.Switzerland has been the breeding ground of major contemporary artists like Jean TINGUELY, BEN, Niele TORONI and Felice VARINI. Collectively these artists experimented with new materials, produced interesting results from mixing art with life (and vice-versa), and generally broadened our fields of perception. Since then, other artists have caught our attention by using video and creating protean and uninhibited installations.

Contemporary art market: results from the spring/summer season of 2006 [02/10/2006]

This month the European art market will gyrate to the rhythm of the contemporary art fairs, with the Frieze Art Fair starting 12 October in London and then the Paris FIAC on 26 October and Art Cologne on 1 November. At the same time, the auction houses will capitalise on these events by organising major concurrent sales of contemporary art.Before the fall season begins, Artprice here provides a brief overview of the ebullient contemporary art market so far this year.

Yves Klein – Painter of the immaterial [24/09/2006]

For four months, starting 5 October 2006 and ending 5 February 2007, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris will dedicate a retrospective to Yves Klein, the “painter of pure feelings and emotions”. Yves Klein changed the history of art simply by the depth of his IKB (International Klein Blue). In market terms, the US and UK actively support the French artist and its auction houses generate 80% his annual sales revenue compared with 9% in France.

Nan Goldin’s photography of the intimate [10/09/2006]

Nan Goldin is an American photographer born in 1953 who built up an intimate journal of 30 years of shots. Life and work are indistinguishable for this artist who began by a near obsessive photographing of her family after her sister committed suicide. Later, she turned her lens on an extended family of friends and lovers.

ARTPRICE partners GOOGLE’s News Archive Search [06/09/2006]

Artprice is a partner in Google’s revolutionary new service “Google News archive search” that has just been launched. In the framework of the partnership agreement, Artprice has provided exclusive databases in 5 languages.

Maximilien Luce – impressionist heritage [29/08/2006]

Maximilien LUCE was one of the major artists of the neo-impressionist period. He was associated with Camille PISSARRO, Paul SIGNAC and Georges Pierre SEURAT who was probably the key figure of the neo-impressionist movement. During his life, i.e. between the 1880s and his death in 1941, Luce produced a large volume of work that includes oil paintings, lithographs and numerous drawings.<%/DESC%>

His favourite themes – which happen to be the most sought-after on the market – are the leisures and labours of the ordinary people of his epoch, as well as landscapes of Paris, Normandy and Brittany. As an ardent anarchist, Luce was particularly keen on depicting the living conditions of his working-class contemporaries in realist and everyday situations.

Cubist sculpture [28/08/2006]

As a Fine Art segment, the price index for Cubist sculpture contracted in 2005, but seems to be growing again this year.

MARCEL DUCHAMP – The art of provoking the art world [21/08/2006]

With just a handful of “ready-made” works, Marcel Duchamp turned a new page in Art History. These rare and emblematic pieces occasionally surface in UK and American auction rooms.

Successful launch of Artprice Decorative Arts [09/08/2006]

Artprice Decorative Arts®, the online marketplace for furniture, design, antiques, ceramics, collections, clocks and watches, military memorabilia and objets d’art, was launched two months ahead of schedule on 9 July 2006. Initial results confirm strong demand and Artprice’s powerful reputation in a market that is twelve times the size of the fine art market by turnover. The full data base of 90 million sale results complete with images will soon be available. This new venture means that Artprice can now cover 90% of the market for catalogued auction sales.

Avalanche of records at auction [08/08/2006]

A massive 6,130 artists have set new records at auction in the 2006 spring/summer season alone. And no fewer than 102 have broken the million dollar barrier this year.

TÀPIES & BARCELÓ – Two generations of Spanish “materialists”. [03/08/2006]

Antoni TAPIES and Miquel BARCELO have much in common, besides their Spanish origins. Both artists instil their works with an unusually powerful physical presence, through the density of the pictured surface which is scored, uneven, thickened, stained or overlaid with disparate materials.While Joan MIRO encouraged Tàpies to exploit the widest possible range of materials, Barceló was fascinated by André BRETON whose idea of the fortuitous meeting (of objects and ideas) perhaps inspired his experimental quest that led him to incorporate sand and ash, ceramic and bone into his art.

Global Fine Art auction sales turnover: up 48.2%! [25/07/2006]

The 2006 spring/summer sales season has been one of the most dynamic ever recorded by Artprice. Compared to the first half of 2005, the global figure for total Fine Art sales revenue is showing the incredible growth rate of +48.2%. The figure is today 4 times what it was 10 years ago.

Cindy SHERMAN [17/07/2006]

From the outset of her photographic career in the 1970s, Cindy Sherman was already making portraits of herself…momentarily…as someone else. Over 30 years, she has created a portrait gallery of social and cultural stereotypes from the 20th and 21st century. After the Untitled Film Stills, her most celebrated series are Centerfolds (1981) – inspired by fashion photography, Disasters (1984-1986) – a series of nightmarish fairy-tales, History Portraits (1988-1990) – which parodies historical masterworks, Sex Pictures (1992) depicting dismembered dolls, and the burlesque series Clowns (2003-2004).

Photography is booming [04/07/2006]

The photography market is in rude health. Prices have risen another 30% in the last twelve months (+207% in ten years) and new records are becoming commonplace, both for modern and for contemporary images.

VIENNESE ACTIONISM – The price of blood [27/06/2006]

Viennese Actionism is an Austrian revolutionary avant-garde movement that was active between 1962 and 1968. Its principal figures – Nitsch, Muehl, Brus and Schwarzkogler – enacted violent performances with sacrificial overtones, designed to free individuals from their repressions, break social constraints, generally challenge assumptions and ultimately, through the medium of instinctive outpourings, to rediscover an implacable liberty. This provocative movement can only be understood in the context of an Austria wracked by the horrors of the second world war and stifled by its own inner feelings of guilt. Hitler after all was Austrian.

The London School [19/06/2006]

British figurative art came into being in 1976 with The Human Clay, an exhibition organised by R. B. Kitaj. Lucian Freud (born 1922) and Francis Bacon (1909-1992) accompanied by Frank Auerbach (1931), Leon Kossof (1926), Michael Andrews (1928-1995) and Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932), met in the Colony Room in Soho, London and offered an alternative to the mainly abstract painting of the post-war era.In opposition to the abstract movement and the predominance of colour in painting, the London School stands for “realistic” painting, which aims to get behind surface appearances to reveal the inner truth of the subject. It is painting that intentionally provokes by showcasing subjects that are often utterly unattractive and in crude postures.

COBRA – “Vehement painting” [30/05/2006]

With a price index showing 160% growth over 10 years and a market now in very short supply of major works, the prices of COBRA works look set to continue rising.

Speculation in New York [28/05/2006]

At the end of the prestigious May sales, the average price of works negotiated in New York auction rooms was up by 56% compared to that registered at the peak of the speculative bubble in 1990. Over recent months, the rate of inflation observed on the American art market since 1999 has considerably accelerated and since April 2005 average sales prices in New York have risen by 49.6%!